Staff Fear for Their Safety as Hospitals Across Sweden See Rise in Violent Crime and Death, Rape Threats
by Virginia Hale Healthcare professionals working in Swedish hospitals are living in fear as a result of threats and violence from criminal patients and their extended families. Local media reports that staff caring for gunshot victims, many of whom are criminals and people injured in gang related violence, are threatened with death and rape as patients’ “clans” storm the hospital. “It has become almost a given in some situations that we will see victims’ relatives charging into the hospital wards and issuing verbal threats to healthcare workers,” said an emergency room nurse working at Vrinnevis Hospital in Norrköping, who wished to...
by Virginia Hale Healthcare professionals working in Swedish hospitals are living in fear as a result of threats and violence from criminal patients and their extended families. Local media reports that staff caring for gunshot victims, many of whom...
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